Video Poker 24/7 - Video Poker and Bingo Issues

Video Poker 247 - Video Poker and Bingo Issues

Hammond City Council has just voted to allow a third bingo parlor in the city – and many are not happy about it. The anti-gambling groups say that it is entirely too much gambling, and they want it completely gone.

In fact, there are enough people against the idea of bringing in more video poker that they had a meeting that more than 100 people showed up to tell the council that they were opposed to the idea. They say that video bingo is simply one short step away from video poker, slot machines, and full scale gambling.

The city council says that residents are overreacting to the allowance of the video poker games. They say that the majority of the people want the games, so the rest of them are basically going to have to deal with it. Not so.

It seems that the city’s Home Rule Charter states that they can get signatures from 15% of the city’s voters to get an issue on the November ballot that would ban video bingo. The council has already approved the wording of the referendum, so now they just have to get the signatures.

They have already started going door-to-door and they say that they have so far been very successful at getting signatures. Those that are running the video bingo games already say that if they are going to get rid of electronic bingo, then they have to ensure that all gambling is eliminated. They say that video poker, call in bingo, the state lottery, etc. all need to be illegal as well as they are forms of gambling just like video bingo is.

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